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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound — and to ‘the pacer’ — It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend.
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Daily Mail:
ZAWAHIRI: THE EGYPTIAN TERROR BOSS SET TO REPLACE BIN LADEN — Ayman Al Zawahiri met Osama Bin Laden in the mid-1980s while supporting mujahideen guerrillas fighting Soviets in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. — The Egyptian was born in Cairo in 1951 to a prominent family …
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Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Videos Released by Government — The government today released five videos found in Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, showing the al Qaeda leader preparing a message to the United States and watching himself on television. — The first was a previously …
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Mediaite, Sense of Events and Pat Dollard
Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Raid: Al Qaeda ‘Playbook’ Revealed — U.S. intelligence is now in possession of a veritable “playbook” of al Qaeda operations — from potential terror attack targets to information on international safe houses and top commanders — thanks to the Navy SEAL raid that took …
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Left Coast Rebel and Atlas Shrugs
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Unreal: Obama Allows Photos of Dead US Soldiers But Not Dead Terrorist
Unreal: Obama Allows Photos of Dead US Soldiers But Not Dead Terrorist
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Face That Screamed War's Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later — MOSUL, Iraq — Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war. — “My brother was sick …
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Jeremy Bernstein / New York Review of Books:
That ‘Sweet Abbottabad Air’ — Children looking out over the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 3, 2011 — Sometime before he left the town that he founded in 1853—and where, a century and a half later, Osama bin Laden was discovered hiding out in a concrete mansion …
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New York Times:
U.S. Demands More From Pakistan in Bin Laden Inquiry
U.S. Demands More From Pakistan in Bin Laden Inquiry
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msnbc.com:
New details about bin Laden being released
New details about bin Laden being released
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The Lede, The Wire, Gawker, Associated Press and Hot Air
Noam Chomsky / guernicamag.com:
My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death — We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. — It's increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law.
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Barack Obama: Clean energy will deliver the ‘jobs of the future’ — For the third weekend in a row, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to the nation on Saturday to promote his energy agenda, calling clean energy jobs the “jobs of the future.” — Speaking from the Allison …
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The White House:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy Will Help Us Out-Compete and Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
Weekly Address: Clean Energy Will Help Us Out-Compete and Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy to Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
Weekly Address: Clean Energy to Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
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CNN
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Kloppenburg Laying Foundation To Delegitimize Inevitable Prosser Win — The recount in Wisconsin is moving along pretty much as expected given the history of recounts in Wisconsin: There hasn't been much change in the vote count. — As of the end of the day yesterday, with 82% of the voting units in …
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WisPolitics Election Blog
BBC:
Afghanistan: Fierce fighting follows Kandahar attack — Heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have reportedly been used by both sides — Intense fighting is taking place in Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar amid co-ordinated militant attacks, including at least six suicide bombs.
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Paul Krugman:
Shadow of the Torturers — After reading John Yoo's attack on the president for not taking Osama alive and bringing him to Gitmo, I thought I might take a minute to explain something I sometimes say. Once in a while I mention, in passing, that the Bush administration saw torturing people as a plus, not a cost.
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CNN:
Muslim group: two imams pulled from plane bound for North Carolina — (CNN) — An airline is investigating the removal of two imams from a flight headed to North Carolina, ostensibly because passengers felt uncomfortable with their presence of the pair — both clad in Islamic attire.
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Ben Bowens / CBS Philly:
Police: IED Found Near Chester Train Tracks — CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) - Chester police are urging vigilance after they found an improvised explosive device, this afternoon, near Amtrak and Septa railroad tracks and the Commodore Barry Bridge. — Police say the device consisted of two bottles with a yellow liquid inside.
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The Western Experience and Don Surber
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
You Call That Tough? — The only thing missing from Preet Bharara's press conference was the blaring of trumpets. — It was Tuesday, and the U.S. attorney in Manhattan was proudly unveiling a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank that his office had filed that morning.
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Brendan O'Neill / spiked-online.com:
The rise and rise of a pity-for-Osama lobby — The chattering classes' ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with the killing of bin Laden is underpinned more by moral cowardice than political principle. — How did 'I hate bin Laden and I'm glad he's dead' become the most shocking thing one can say in polite society?
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National Review
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
More U.S. Oil Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices, Experts Say … WASHINGTON — Republicans used the politically potent argument about the cost of gas Thursday to pass a bill expanding offshore oil and gas exploration. But analysts say there's a major flaw in their case: More drilling will barely budge prices.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices
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CNN:
Santorum: Obama doesn't understand America — Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had a ballroom packed with South Carolina Republican insiders all to himself on Friday night when he addressed the state party's annual fundraising banquet in Columbia.
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